10 Ways Hackers Could Cripple Wall Street

businessinsider.com:

Right now, nothing scares Wall Street more than looming regulation and taxation from Washington.

But politicians aren't the only threat. There are also numerous technical threats, like trading algorithms gone haywire, traders making billions of dollars in rogue transactions, or Russian cyber-gangs hacking into bank servers.

Even a "fat finger" human error can send a stock tumbling.

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